REAPPORTIONMENT
Senate Act Waits
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Senate Republicans, who control the upper chamber by more than a two-to-one majority, have decided to delay reapportionment of the Senate until a later session.
Unless some of them change their minds, Senate reapportionment will be relayed until the 1967 or 1968 sessions. The Republicans hold a 27-13 majority in the chamber.
Senate President Pro Tem Glee Smith Jr., R-Larned, said the Republicans decided to delay reapportionment because:
- The current session can be completed faster if the legislature only has to reapportion the House, thereby saving the taxpayers money.
- In drawing Senate districts for 1968, reapartment with later census figures will be more accurate.
- Smith said he had been assured by Atty. Gen. Robert Lonerholm that the court and Lonerholm both felt there is no obligation, moral or otherwise, to draw new Senate districts at this time.
Court OKs Lines
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—(UPI) A three-judge federal court ruled today that the five Kansas congressional district boundaries may stand as outlined by the 1965 Kansas Legislature.
The panel, composed of Judge Delmas C. Hill of the 10th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and U. S. Dist. Judges George Templar and Arthur J. Stanley Jr.,
Russia Charges U.S. Negligence
GENEVA—(UPI)—Russia today charged the United States with contaminating international waters with a nuclear bomb lost in the crash of a BS2 bomber off the southeastern coast of Spain last month.
In a memorandum to the 17nation disarmament conference, Moscow demanded an immediate end to all flights of bombers carrying nuclear weapons outside national borders.
THE MISSING weapon was one of four nuclear bombs that fell Jan. 17 in the collision of the giant engine bomber and a KC135 refueling plane over Spain.
Three of the bombs were recovered on land, but the fourth apparently fell into the Mediterranean Sea and was believed lying in 1,200 feet of water within three or four miles of the Spanish coast. Efforts to recover the bomb have failed.
The search continued today in the Mediterranean Sea off the southeastern coast of Spain.
The Soviet note charged the United States with violating international law, the international convention of the high seas and the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty.
Valentine Misses Mark
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(UPI)— It appeared to be a high school romance lifted out of a Hollywood script: The handsome football player courting the pretty cheerleader and becoming engaged.
But the love match soured late last year and the engagement was broken.
HOLLIS VICTOR ROBISON Jr., 19, charged with assault with intent to murder, calmly explained that he rigged a 16-gauge sawed-off shotgun in a red attache case, disguised it as a Valentine and left it on the steps of 18-year-old Nancy Adams' house.
Nancy's sister, Patricia, 13, got to the package first, however, and was wounded in the feet by a shotgun blast when she opened the present on her doorstep because it was too heavy for her to carry into the house. She was listed in satisfactory condition in a hospital.
Investigators said the blast probably would have been fatal if the package had been opened on a table—at chest level—as intended.
said that the 1965 redistricting measure met the requirements of the U. S. Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" mandate.
THE SAME court ruled in April of 1964 that a 1961 redistricting plan had too much variance in population between districts.
After that decision, the 1965 Legislature remapped the boundaries with a population difference of no more than 15,060 between any two districts.
But four Wyandotte County attorneys who filed the original suit said that the 1965 action still did not satisfy the requirements and brought another suit to have the redistricting ruled unconstitutional.
Guard Exchanges Fire With Sniper
SANTO DOMINGO —(UPI)— A sniper fired on an American sentry guarding the residence of U.S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett early today.
An embassy spokesman said the sniper and the guard exchanged five shots without either being hit.
The sniper attack was one of 16 shooting incidents and bomb blasts reported during the night and early this morning. A young girl was killed by one of the bomb explosions.
Meanwhile, the main group supporting the seven-day general strike ended its part in the walk-out after President Hector Gareia Godio bowed to the demands of the strikers for the ouster of two military chiefs. It was not known if other workers would agree to end the strike.
The death raised to 25 the number killed in eight days of rioting and violence. Seventy have been wounded, including 11 members of the Inter-American Peace Force.
The crisis seemed to have eased somewhat this morning with traffic moving freely through the downtown streets for the first time in eight days.
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Plastic Bombs Kill 12 Civilians
By United Press International Twelve persons were killed and 18 injured today when Communist terrorists exploded two plastic bombs in crowded streets outside the Vietnamese Armed Forces headquarters compound. Most of the victims were civilians and no Americans were hurt.
lengths to create homemade shrapnel.
American demolition experts said the bombs consisted of a core of plastic explosive surrounded by layers of heavy copper electrical cable, sliced into short
In Washington President Johnson has warned that if Viet Cong terror tactics can topple South Viet Nam, they can be used again to subjugate others—at another time, at an even higher cost to freedom.
Johnson said that the main test of U.S. strength in the conflict would be the building of a "better society" in South Viet Nam, and, after outlining plans for education programs at home, detailed
those designed for South Viet Nam.
He said he had pledged U.S. support to help build 2,800 classroom, help train 13,400 teachers, help distribute nearly 6,000 text books and assist in educating "almost a fourth as many doctors as the total number they now have."
8 Daily Kanson Thursday, February 17, 1966
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